- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020